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https://qz.com/1910540/wastewater-testing-for-covid-19-is-straining-supply-chains/amp/

So many communities are testing poop for Covid-19, equipment is running out.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues on in the US, state and municipal groups are scrambling to find ways to track of new cases and potential outbreaks. One such method: scanning sewage for bits of the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself....

.... Why the big fuss over sewage monitoring? Wastewater-based epidemiology has the potential to be a cost-effective complement to clinical testing. Because individuals often shed bits of the virus in their fecal matter before they come down with Covid-19, it can be a way of tracking where outbreaks are about to happen. In a small enough community—like a university campus—public health officials have been able to see spikes in SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, test dorm residents, and isolate the few people who tested positive even when they weren’t showing symptoms. Boom—outbreak averted.

Thought this was also noteworthy from q&a

We regularly carry out tests on skin sanitisers, soaps and cleansers using our commensal skin consortia and specific pathogens. In the lab, our standard methods for testing sanitisers against the virus implement the most robust safety measures. We are now working with two leading universities with Containment Level 3 biosafety levels for specific laboratory work on SARS–CoV2.

Thanks for posting the q&a
Really Fascinating and ‘amazing’ work labskin are doing.

‘The Chinese regulator is looking to establish alternatives in vitro standards to animal testing. Labskin is in an excellent position to become a key part of the new regulatory environment emerging in the Chinese cosmetics market.’

Huge potential here.
Many countries are now starting to see the value in monitoring waste water!

www.news24.com/amp/news24/analysis/analysis-monitoring-our-wastewater-covid-19-is-in-our-poop

In July, we wrote and recommended that South Africa needed a Covid-19 wastewater and water quality surveillance programme. This was on the response by WRC and SALGA partnership May launch of the Water Quality (wastewater and non-sewer) National surveillance programme aimed to complement national initiatives in dealing with the pandemic.

Alicia Douglas, President of Water Rising Institute comments:

"We are excited to be partnering with Integumen, as we are directly aligned on our goals to bring innovation and technology to the infrastructure of our water systems, to protect our people and our planet. The DRAWQ project launches this much needed real-time AI technology in Detroit, MI. WaterRising Institute will then help to spread this and many other real-time water monitoring and warning solutions to other parts of the US and the world"

Integumen PLC (to be renamed DeepVerge plc)



("Integumen" or "Company")



First COVID19 detection agreement for Detroit MI and Fresh Water in Great Lakes, USA



Integumen and Water Rising Institute in 3-year Great Lakes water contamination detection Project



Deployment of Microtox® PD and Microtox® BT Novel Sensors for identification of pathogenic virusesincluding SARS-CoV-2



Integumen announces that it has signed an Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") with Water Rising Institute, a Non Profit Organization in Detroit, Michigan, USA, to enter a legally binding three year Framework Agreement ("Agreement") to be executed on or before the 18 November 2020 for the supply of $500,000 of equipment, consumables and services from ecowaterOS partners, for the management and real-time monitoring of water quality, initially in the Great Lakes basin region of Michigan.



WaterRising Institute is a women-led nonprofit that accelerates real-time and sustainable management of water. WaterRising aims to develop a state-of-the-art early warning system for water quality monitoring, that provides real time alerts, enabling the local authorities to identify the source of their pollutants, while protecting their citizens.



Under the proposed Agreement Integumen will act for and on behalf of the Consortium Parties of ecowaterOS technologies in the USA, EU and associated states under the European Neighbourhood Policy who provide products and services. The appointment to manage the water systems will continue for three years, with an initial trial period of six months, and an annual renewal thereafter.



Integumen will act as WaterRising's agent to design, build, install and supervise the Detroit River AI Water Quality Project ('DRAWQ[i]'). The DRAWQ project consists of a Consortium Parties of ecowaterOS technologies in the USA, EU and associated states under the European Neighbourhood Policy. Monitoring products will include ecowaterOS partner's HydrolightTM, RAWTestTM, Microtox®, OVA®, PDV®, RaPID Assay®, EnviroGard®, EnSys®, QuickChek®, AlgaeChek®, BODChek®, PetroChek®. Integumen's Microtox® PD and Microtox® BT Novel Sensors will be used for the identification of pathogenic viruses including SARS-CoV-2.



Gerard Brandon CEO Integumen plc commented:



"WaterRising Institute is an inspiring consortium driving recognition of the importance of clean water and we are delighted to be working alongside them in the DRAWQ Project. More than 35 million people rely on the Great Lakes for drinking water, jobs and their way of life and right now there are 90 Million Cases of Recreational Waterborne Illness Per Year[ii], clearly demonstrating the need to rejuvenate the river. This work will enable Detroit to become the center of excellence for technology and systems for the measuring of water quality and we are proud to be a part of this drive for environmental change."

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news
Covid 19 coronavirus:
Test wastewater to track virus carriers, says professor

New Zealand should implement a wastewater monitoring system to boost protection against hidden Covid-19 clusters and asymptomatic carriers, a University of Otago academic says.

Professor Neil Gemmell, a geneticist at the University of Otago, is part of a national group, led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR).

The group is sampling wastewater, with a view to detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

ESR recently received $1.65million in Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment funding to undertake wastewater-related viral detection research.

Gemmell's research group had already detected coronavirus in wastewater at Dunedin's Tahuna Wastewater Treatment Plant in late March and April, he said.

Big overseas developments in the field showed the required technology was established and effective.

The Washington Post reported late last month the University of Arizona had undertaken periodic screenings of wastewater for coronavirus on its campus, and had detected two asymptomatic students at a dormitory, preventing a sizeable outbreak.

Gemmell was keen to see wastewater monitoring implemented at the country's international airports and ports to detect any "hot spots" of new infection.

This approach could also be deployed regionally to provide monitoring of specific regions, such as Auckland, he said.

"With Covid-19 cases re-emerging, albeit currently contained in quarantine facilities, the ability to test sewage at facility, local and regional scales could well be an important part of New Zealand's surveillance safety net."

This approach could also be used to identify "virus circulating in asymptomatic carriers", potentially preventing community outbreaks, he said.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news
Covid 19 coronavirus:
Test wastewater to track virus carriers, says professor

New Zealand should implement a wastewater monitoring system to boost protection against hidden Covid-19 clusters and asymptomatic carriers, a University of Otago academic says.

Professor Neil Gemmell, a geneticist at the University of Otago, is part of a national group, led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR).

The group is sampling wastewater, with a view to detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

ESR recently received $1.65million in Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment funding to undertake wastewater-related viral detection research.

Gemmell's research group had already detected coronavirus in wastewater at Dunedin's Tahuna Wastewater Treatment Plant in late March and April, he said.

Big overseas developments in the field showed the required technology was established and effective.

The Washington Post reported late last month the University of Arizona had undertaken periodic screenings of wastewater for coronavirus on its campus, and had detected two asymptomatic students at a dormitory, preventing a sizeable outbreak.

Gemmell was keen to see wastewater monitoring implemented at the country's international airports and ports to detect any "hot spots" of new infection.

This approach could also be deployed regionally to provide monitoring of specific regions, such as Auckland, he said.

"With Covid-19 cases re-emerging, albeit currently contained in quarantine facilities, the ability to test sewage at facility, local and regional scales could well be an important part of New Zealand's surveillance safety net."

This approach could also be used to identify "virus circulating in asymptomatic carriers", potentially preventing community outbreaks, he said.

independent.ie/world-news/

Rising levels of virus in sewage could be early warning of surge

Scientists monitoring wastewater from a treatment plant in Dublin found evidence of increasing levels of the coronavirus in sewage as cases in the capital surged.

A team of researchers at UCD's School of Microbiology, who have been monitoring samples from the Ringsend plant in Dublin since June, say routine testing of wastewater could act as an early warning system for future coronavirus outbreaks.

"We have seen a significant increase in the level of RNA [genetic material from Covid-19] in the wastewater in the Ringsend plant in recent weeks," said Wim Meijer, professor of microbiology at UCD, who is leading the project.
"The levels of genetic material have been going up, which coincides with the number of infected people in that area.

Great reminders retireby40
It’s easy to lose sight within all the noise of how great the tech is and the Huge potential it has.

Fully Invested because of modern water the water treatment/monitoring Side of business, very happy to be mering with integumen though from the great collobration it offers With rinocloud For real time monitoring but also The excellent work being done with Labskin.

Thinking the Exteme fall in price being a accumulation akin to a perfect storm kickstarted with a major shareholder, the Helium Rising Stars Fund, selling nearly 6%. Helium only invest to £50m mcap, at 61p/64p where they sold SKIN & MWG had a combined mcap of >£100m

factor in this selling off was also timed during the live streamed online presentation which I’m sure a fair few investors did not see so almost in the dark with the fund selling dropping the price created panic and a snowball effect then add to the mix derampers trolls who magically turn up saying presentation a disaster? and the snowball turns to a avalanche.

Shame there is a lot of dubious disingenuous posters on these types of boards armed with I suspect hidden agendas.

Realise the focus across these boards last few days has been on the newly presented real time covid19 detection breathalyser but by reactions you’d be almost fooled to believe this is what the company is solely about and thus make or break for them. Clearly not.

Putting the amazing tech and huge potential of modern water, rinocloud and labskin aside

To me the microtox bt is a novel and ingenious bit of kit, which I assume can be or has the potential to be used to not only detect covid19 but a assortment of viruses, illnesses, diseases?? If that’s the case fantastic imagine going to your hospital consultant, local gp for testing instead of invasive swabs waiting days for results, breathing in to this device 30/60 seconds later, diagnosed! Boom! happy.

Credit where credit due Fantastic work from the team on all fronts, this breathalyser clearly shows the ingenuity of the team. they are clearly passionate, dedicated and enthusiastic which is amazing.

Side note- Having read up a little more on labskin, remarkable, if this potentially reduces, eradicates!!! testing on animals, all involved with it’s development deserve knighthoods.

Article from nbcnews.com

'Sewer sludge' detects coronavirus outbreaks days faster than contact tracing, study finds’

Researchers at Yale University found that testing "sewer sludge" in wastewater for coronavirus could detect an outbreak more than a week earlier than traditional contact tracing.

In the study, published last week in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers began taking daily samples from a New Haven-area wastewater treatment plant, which serves multiple towns in Connecticut including New Haven, East Haven, Hamden and parts of Woodbridge.

The study’s results, which span 10 weeks from March 19 to June 1, found that testing sewers for Covid-19 — collecting samples from the "primary sewage sludge" of settled solids — produces transmission trends that are “very similar” to those of contact tracing, but come about “six to eight” days earlier.
Wastewater testing is exactly as it sounds — and it isn’t anything new.

The science of studying human fecal waste as a way of predicting a population’s risk for viral spread, also known as wastewater epidemiology, has been successfully used by the global community in the fight against polio.

Wastewater, or sewage from households or buildings, can harbor viruses like coronavirus regardless of whether a person is symptomatic. When scientists extract human waste from municipal sewage systems, then analyze it for dead virus particles, they’re given clear indication of the number of infected individuals in that area.
“In communities where test reporting is delayed,” the researchers wrote, “sludge results, if analyzed and reported on the same day as sampling, can provide substantial advance notice of infection dynamics."

This roughly week-long period can be crucial to curbing coronavirus outbreaks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those infected with the coronavirus may not show symptoms for up to 14 days, if at all, but may otherwise be contagious.

In August, the University of Arizona claimed a campus outbreak was averted in part because of wastewater testing which indicated two asymptomatic students were in a campus dorm. Prior to students, faculty and staff returning to its campus, the university had enacted a campus-wide initiative in which campus sewage systems were actively monitored for traces of coronavirus.

In countries like The Netherlands, France, and Australia small pilot studies have also demonstrated the promise wastewater testing.
In Paris, researchers released findings in April showing they’d successfully mimicked the rise-and-fall curve of the city’s on-the-ground epidemic over a 1-month period of testing the city’s sewage systems.

The Yale study also says wastewater testing is less costly, intricate and time consuming than contact tracing. As such, it benefits low-income communities and communities with overwhelmed public health systems where there are lags in testing.

Article from nbcnews.com

'Sewer sludge' detects coronavirus outbreaks days faster than contact tracing, study finds’

Researchers at Yale University found that testing "sewer sludge" in wastewater for coronavirus could detect an outbreak more than a week earlier than traditional contact tracing.

In the study, published last week in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers began taking daily samples from a New Haven-area wastewater treatment plant, which serves multiple towns in Connecticut including New Haven, East Haven, Hamden and parts of Woodbridge.

The study’s results, which span 10 weeks from March 19 to June 1, found that testing sewers for Covid-19 — collecting samples from the "primary sewage sludge" of settled solids — produces transmission trends that are “very similar” to those of contact tracing, but come about “six to eight” days earlier.
Wastewater testing is exactly as it sounds — and it isn’t anything new.

The science of studying human fecal waste as a way of predicting a population’s risk for viral spread, also known as wastewater epidemiology, has been successfully used by the global community in the fight against polio.

Wastewater, or sewage from households or buildings, can harbor viruses like coronavirus regardless of whether a person is symptomatic. When scientists extract human waste from municipal sewage systems, then analyze it for dead virus particles, they’re given clear indication of the number of infected individuals in that area.
“In communities where test reporting is delayed,” the researchers wrote, “sludge results, if analyzed and reported on the same day as sampling, can provide substantial advance notice of infection dynamics."

This roughly week-long period can be crucial to curbing coronavirus outbreaks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those infected with the coronavirus may not show symptoms for up to 14 days, if at all, but may otherwise be contagious.

In August, the University of Arizona claimed a campus outbreak was averted in part because of wastewater testing which indicated two asymptomatic students were in a campus dorm. Prior to students, faculty and staff returning to its campus, the university had enacted a campus-wide initiative in which campus sewage systems were actively monitored for traces of coronavirus.

In countries like The Netherlands, France, and Australia small pilot studies have also demonstrated the promise wastewater testing.
In Paris, researchers released findings in April showing they’d successfully mimicked the rise-and-fall curve of the city’s on-the-ground epidemic over a 1-month period of testing the city’s sewage systems.

The Yale study also says wastewater testing is less costly, intricate and time consuming than contact tracing. As such, it benefits low-income communities and communities with overwhelmed public health systems where there are lags in testing.

Interesting read
From Twitter- lunsman@lunsam96

Yesterday was a perfect storm. Day-traders looking for the next ‘Covid moonshoot’, coupled with their a major shareholder, the Helium Rising Stars Fund, selling nearly 6%. Helium only invest to £50m mcap, at 61p/64p where they sold #SKIN + #MWG had a combined mcap of >£100m. 2/15

Its not within the fund investment strategy to hold companies of that size, which is why they sold. Its a shame it happened yesterday, it created utter panic amongst PIs and what can be only seen as the most ridiculous day of share price movement I have ever seen on AIM. 3/15

I see significant value in the 4 core business channels;
1. #Labskin - lab-grown human skin, enables remote clinical trials of skincare products, prevents the need of animal testing of skin products.
2. #Rinocloud - artificial intelligence, data management, machine learning 4/15

3. Water Monitoring - once #MWG is acquired, #DVRG have access to Gold-Standard water monitoring kit, and a worldwide distribution channel.
4. Covid Monitoring - below ground and above ground, waste-water community screening, and above ground breath-testing. 5/15

These are 4, potentially industry-revolutionising businesses. That is why I invested at in both #SKIN and #MWG at around 1p (10p post consol.). That has not changed. €Rinocloud is what enables the other 3 businesses to be revolutionary. I shall explain why: 6/15

Water monitoring has historically been done by sampling, you sample water every few days and test it. Once you find a problem you remedy it, often too late. With the addition of Rinocloud, you have LIVE water monitoring. You detect a problem instantly, as soon as it happens. 7/15

With both skin trials and water detection, you create a repository of data/knowledge of research and predictive analysis. You provide time-stamped, validated and reproducible data. You can start to able to predict outcomes using the AI and machine learning. 8/15

Re. yesterday and the #Covid19 Testing, we have (that I know of), the worlds only live water monitoring, community-screening Covid monitoring device. This is hugely important as it can track and identify hotspots, collect data and be used to predict outbreaks. 9/15

What was announced yesterday, was the first end-to-end Covid testing solution. A system which has community screening, and a time-stamped positive/negative that is available within seconds for £4 a day. #AVCT may be developing another, but we are yet to see it & cost. 10/15

Even if the solution announced yesterday is not installed worldwide, it is the perfect solution for the cruise industry, offices, airlines, hospitals and schools. Those are significant potential revenue channels, worth far more than the current £50m mcap in my eyes. 11/15

Interesting read
From Twitter- lunsman@lunsam96

Yesterday was a perfect storm. Day-traders looking for the next ‘Covid moonshoot’, coupled with their a major shareholder, the Helium Rising Stars Fund, selling nearly 6%. Helium only invest to £50m mcap, at 61p/64p where they sold #SKIN + #MWG had a combined mcap of >£100m. 2/15

Its not within the fund investment strategy to hold companies of that size, which is why they sold. Its a shame it happened yesterday, it created utter panic amongst PIs and what can be only seen as the most ridiculous day of share price movement I have ever seen on AIM. 3/15

I see significant value in the 4 core business channels;
1. #Labskin - lab-grown human skin, enables remote clinical trials of skincare products, prevents the need of animal testing of skin products.
2. #Rinocloud - artificial intelligence, data management, machine learning 4/15

3. Water Monitoring - once #MWG is acquired, #DVRG have access to Gold-Standard water monitoring kit, and a worldwide distribution channel.
4. Covid Monitoring - below ground and above ground, waste-water community screening, and above ground breath-testing. 5/15

These are 4, potentially industry-revolutionising businesses. That is why I invested at in both #SKIN and #MWG at around 1p (10p post consol.). That has not changed. €Rinocloud is what enables the other 3 businesses to be revolutionary. I shall explain why: 6/15

Water monitoring has historically been done by sampling, you sample water every few days and test it. Once you find a problem you remedy it, often too late. With the addition of Rinocloud, you have LIVE water monitoring. You detect a problem instantly, as soon as it happens. 7/15

With both skin trials and water detection, you create a repository of data/knowledge of research and predictive analysis. You provide time-stamped, validated and reproducible data. You can start to able to predict outcomes using the AI and machine learning. 8/15

Re. yesterday and the #Covid19 Testing, we have (that I know of), the worlds only live water monitoring, community-screening Covid monitoring device. This is hugely important as it can track and identify hotspots, collect data and be used to predict outbreaks. 9/15

What was announced yesterday, was the first end-to-end Covid testing solution. A system which has community screening, and a time-stamped positive/negative that is available within seconds for £4 a day. #AVCT may be developing another, but we are yet to see it & cost. 10/15

Even if the solution announced yesterday is not installed worldwide, it is the perfect solution for the cruise industry, offices, airlines, hospitals and schools. Those are significant potential revenue channels, worth far more than the current £50m mcap in my eyes. 11/15

Really hard to see the market/ people punish the company/ share price And all because they presented a solution for real time covid detection.
Brutal couple of days.
I truly hope mr Brandon can turn things/ sentiment around.

Thankyou gjbrandon. Great work yourself and all involved are achieving. I remain invested and looking forward to the journey ahead more so about the mwg waste water/ monitoring side of coming business.

Surprised in the huge drop from the days high when buys outweighed sells and no real bad news only a good forward progressing rns.
Great tech and in real time,
Would definitely be beneficial in hospitals to test staff/ inpatients admitted to wards.
Cruise ships, Airports?
The potential is there.

Integumen PLC (to be renamed DeepVerge PLC)



("Integumen" or "Company")





Unveiling of new COVID-19 personalised real-time Breath Test and Digital Health Pass Platform



COVID-19 wastewater Microtox ready for beta testing



Heads of Agreement with Avacta and Aptamer Group for commercial scale supply of SARS-CoV-2 binding agents





Integumen today announces progress for its COVID-19 wastewater detection system, Microtox PD, in collaboration with Modern Water plc ("Modern Water"), Avacta Group plc ("Avacta") and Aptamer Group Limited ("Aptamer"). The Company also today announces the unveiling of a new personalised COVID-19 breath test, Microtox BT, and its complementary Digital Health Pass platform.



Integumen is working with a consortium of companies collaborating to find solutions in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The consortium includes Modern Water, Avacta, Aptamer and a major global provider of innovative technology and services for the data era.



Microtox BT and Digital Health Pass - on the spot triaging of COVID-19 infections offer potential to re-open the economy

Integumen recognised that in collaboration with Modern Water , Avacta and Aptamer Group, its real-time detection and alert system could be adapted to detect the level of infection of coronavirus in a breath sample. Adapting the wastewater test, Microtox PD, the Company has designed, built and tested a prototype, Microtox BT, which can analyse the breath and detect the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in real-time for those with a high viral load. Microtox BT has undergone extensive internal testing and will now transition to the University of Aberdeen containment level 3 laboratory, to undergo tests directly on the virus followed by a joint trial of up to 5,000 participants in parallel with third parties using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction ("rtPCR")[i] and Antigen tests. Results are anticipated before the end of the year and Microtox BT is expected to be a Class 1 medical device[ii].



The Company believes Microtox BT has the potential to enable instant real-time testing of people within the community. This could be capable of providing daily triaging of everyone who may or may not demonstrate levels of infection. To "open the economy", Integumen has incorporated a 24 hour Digital Health Pass that indicates if the person tests positive or negative for infection. Matched with blockchain secure date and time stamp of the test, the Company believes Microtox BT and the Digital Health Pass using "one second" QR Code scanners could potentially contribute to enabling the economy to re-open with personalised go/no go entry into venues such as work, events, social locations, public transport and airports.

Modern Water (AIM:MWG), the owner of leading technologies for water and wastewater treatment and the monitoring of water quality, announces

interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2020

Commenting on the results, Gerard Brandon, Chairman of Modern Water, said:

"The necessary structural changes that were outlined in the recently published 2019 annual results, were carried on through H1 2020. The Company business model in 2020 has moved to a collaboration, cooperation and partnership business model resulting in a high volume, high margin recurring revenue strategy. The increased order levels, seen in H1, are currently being prepared for shipping in H2 2020.

"Modern Water continues to retain a leadership position within the water contamination monitoring sector and is adding the latest technologies in ecommerce, logistics, comms, networking and data encryption which extends the global reach of the Company beyond the US, Europe and Far East offices. With thousands of sites and hundreds of water systems installed over the last 30 years, the Company retains a strong international position in water monitoring. The strategic challenge through this COVID-19 pandemic is being met with the move to provide support services online, making it easier and safer to interact with customers while at the same time to increase the capacity of our equipment to provide surveillance against all sorts of contaminants and threats including viruses and pathogens.

"The new platform gives us the ability to further exploit the data the Company generates from different water systems across the world. Data analytics within the latest AI systems, produced in collaboration with Company partners positions Modern Water to receive multiple revenue streams from equipment, consumables and predictive services for our existing and new clients coming online to manage their COVID-19 risk."